Pascals Wager - Another Religious Stab
By easwizz
@easwizz (203)
United States
December 20, 2006 3:18pm CST
Either God exists, or He does not. If He does, and you live your life as tho he doesnt, your Royaly Screwed. But if He does and you do live that way. then eveythings great. If He doesnt exist, and you think he does, No losses or wins. and if he doesnt ans you think he doesnt, no losses or wins Either. Thoughts?
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@types10000 (32)
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22 Oct 11
if we were to ignore all the basic logical flaws in this argument:
- if beleive in a god and there is none then you lose time
- if you beleive in a god of a different religion than the one your supposed to you still burn
- You cannot decide to magically change your world view based on mere probability of what is safer
.etc
It would still suffer a basic probability flaw ie. it assumes 3 possible states where there are infact four:
States assumed by pascals wager:
- a god does exist and rewards belief
- a god does exist but does not care about what you believe
- a god does not exist
it ignores the state where a god PUNISHES belief; and we have no basis for saying that is any less likely than a god who rewards it.
